Benjamin Alire Saenz Quotes
I’ll tell you a secret. I’m not responsible for whether my students care or don’t care. That care has to come from them—not me.” “Where does that leave you?” “No matter what, Ari, my job is to care.” “Even when they don’t?” “Even when they don’t.” “No matter what?” “No matter what.
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Secret families are really the bedrock issue of Western literature.
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Computers seem a little too adaptively flexible, like the strange natives, odd societies, and head cases we study in the social sciences. There's more opposable thumb in the digital world than I care for; it's awfully close to human.
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Students graduating with high debt encounter difficulties in qualifying for home and automobile loans.
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Female can understand more detail and really care for the consequence and understand all the process.
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My mom just understands about stuff. We have a really good trust, and she knows I can take care of myself.
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I don't care how smart a kid you are. The only way you learn what's not right is from experience.
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I grew up taking care of the pigs. I love this country that, you know, somebody can do something like that.
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I don't do something because I think it will sell 30 million albums. I couldn't care less. If it sells one, it sells one.
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In reference to the Army and Navy, lately employed with so much distinction on active service, care shall be taken to insure the highest condition of efficiency; and in furtherance of that object, the Military and Naval Schools, sustained by the liberality of Congress, shall receive the special attention of the Executive.
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If we can't afford to take good care of the land that feeds us, we're in an insurmountable mess.
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There are so many bad influences out there. I don't care if a kid is rich or poor, if he lives in a million-dollar house or the ghetto, he is going to find some sick things on the street. And if we don't clean it up soon, we're all going to pay the price.
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Some people care too much. I think it's called love.
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It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
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Math proficiency is the gateway to a number of incredible careers that students may never have considered.
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When I taught, all my best students were women.
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Twitter's a great way to tell people across the world what I care about and, hopefully, motivate them to join me in furthering my causes.
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I know it sounds old-fashioned, but I like the idea of women taking care of their men.
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I would suggest that teachers show their students concrete examples of the negative effects of the actions that gangsta rappers glorify.
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Democracy's a very fragile thing. You have to take care of democracy. As soon as you stop being responsible to it and allow it to turn into scare tactics, it's no longer democracy, is it? It's something else. It may be an inch away from totalitarianism.
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The things that make me happy most are my family and working.
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I want to make something commercial that people can pick up on.
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Inequalities of Fate very curious. Should like, on this account, to believe in Reincarnation.
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Sometimes living can be hard, but it's only because we're alive that we can make each other laugh,cry... be happy! In this world, if that's not a reason for being born in this world... I don't know what is!
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I’ll tell you a secret. I’m not responsible for whether my students care or don’t care. That care has to come from them—not me.” “Where does that leave you?” “No matter what, Ari, my job is to care.” “Even when they don’t?” “Even when they don’t.” “No matter what?” “No matter what.
